This is an analysis of Tortoise Shell by David Herbert Lawrence.
The Cross, the Cross
Goes deeper in than we know,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXcaXdd dd cde CCCc fAge cdX dXdc fehaXbe aghi caXa gAciggXcc
- Stanza lengths: 9,2,3,4,4,3,4,7,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0101 1100111 10001 100010 1101 0101001010 0111011101 110101010 101 110101 101111 111011101 11010101101 0100010101 11011 11011 11011 110110101011 01010000111001010101 001010 10100010101010010 101101011110110110101 011010100100 101100110 101001010101001 111 111110 10110100 010001010100010 11101 0101010 11011011011010 0110001001000101 1110111 111101111101 0111010 01 0111101011 10111010 10111010 1111010101 1111101010011 11011111001 111111001011010 01101110101 001010 101100101000101 0101011000011010010 101 10110100 01010100 01010 011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
and, five, life, in, side, on, through, four, of, this
Anaphora
four, the, through
Epiphora
keystone